Improvement in making block-letters



NrTEn STATES PATENT Erica LINVIS KATEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 3,750, datrd Septenilier. '1844.

To all whom, may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEWIS KATEN, of the city and county of New York, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful improvementin the manufacture of blockletters, block numeral figures, ornamental moldings, cornices, and ornamental parts of buildings; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same.

The nature of my invention consists in making block-letters, block numeral iigures, moldings, corniees, or other ornamental parts of buildings in detached frames of metal, wood, or composition, and fitting stained glass into the frame, or inclosing gold or silverleaf, tinfoil, or other coloring-matter behind glass or other transparent substance in the said frame with cement, so as to be impervious by air 0r moisture.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention or improvement, I will proceed to describe its construction.

I make a frame of metal, wood, or c'omposition, in the form ofthe block letter, numeral figure, molding, cornice, or other ornamental part of a building, which frame is represented by theuncolored parts of the accompanying` drawings, Nos. l and 2. Into thisframeIeither insert stained glass, and thus fill up the space which is represented as colored in said accompanying drawings with a permanent color, or I insert with cement into said frame transparent glass, or other transparent substance, behind which I inclose gold-leaf, silver-leaf, tin-foil, or other coloring substance, and cover it behind with a 'coat of asphaltum, varnish, paint, or cement, or with all of them, in such a way as to render it impervious by air or moisture.

Another variation of the same improvement is as follows: In detached plates of metal,.

ing, N o. 3, in which the colored part represents the space cutout ofthe solid plate. Then I place behind the plate stained glass, secured by brads or cement, and thus color the body ofthe letter, figure, Src.; or I place behind the plate transparent glass, or other transparent substance secured in the same way, and behind it I inclose the coloring substance in the same manner as in making the firstmentioned variation of this improvement.

In the application of this improvement to signs, a number of letters or numeral iigures may be combined in the same plate, as in Drawing No. V4C. 4

Vhat I claim a-s my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The introduction into blocklctters, block numeral figures, ornamental moldings, cornices, and ornamental parts of buildings, of a coloringmatter behind a plate of glass or I other transparent substance, in a manner which shall render it permanent, and not liable to be tarnished by exposure to the air and moisture, in the manner herein set forth.

LEWIS l ATEN. Vitnesses:

"WILLIAM C.. RUSSEL, JosEPH S. RIDGWAY. 

